nLab Washington Taylor

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Selected writings

On 2d QCD:

• David Gross, Washington Taylor, Two Dimensional QCD is a String Theory, Nucl. Phys. B400:181-210, 1993

On longitudinal M5-branes in the BFSS matrix model and introducing the fuzzy 4-sphere:

• Judith Castelino, Sangmin Lee, Washington Taylor, Longitudinal 5-branes as 4-spheres in Matrix theory, Nucl. Phys. B526:334-350, 1998 (arXiv:hep-th/9712105)

  (via D5-branes)

On the non-abelian DBI action for intersecting branes with non-abelian gauge enhancement on their worldvolume:

• Akikazu Hashimoto, Washington Taylor, Fluctuation Spectra of Tilted and Intersecting D-branes from the Born-Infeld Action, Nucl. Phys. B503: 193-219, 1997 (arXiv:hep-th/9703217)

• Washington Taylor, Mark Van Raamsdonk, Multiple D$p$-branes in Weak Background Fields, Nucl. Phys. B573:703-734, 2000 (arXiv:hep-th/9910052)

On D0-D6 brane bound states:

• Washington Taylor, Adhering 0-branes to 6-branes and 8-branes, Nucl. Phys. B508: 122-132, 1997 (arXiv:hep-th/9705116)

On F-theory string phenomenology:

• Washington Taylor, Andrew P. Turner, Generic construction of the Standard Model gauge group and matter representations in F-theory (arXiv:1906.11092)

Realization of $E_7$-GUT models in F-theory:

• Shing Yan Li, Washington Taylor, Towards natural and realistic $E_7$ GUTs in F-theory [arXiv:2401.00040]

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